It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

  • -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee 克西

对我来说,让年轻人接触他们认为是禁区的东西是很重要的。我告诉他们,没有墙,只有我们建造的墙。“我给那些审视我人生的年轻人的建议不是追随我的足迹,而是走出去,创造属于自己的人生。”

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My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

我姐姐正处于新浪潮的风口浪尖,而我父亲第一次结婚时的哥哥都是摇滚乐手,所以我接触到了很多流行文化。

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

现代战争的悲剧在于,这些年轻人死于互相厮杀,而不是他们在首都的真正敌人。

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

谁说艺术家应该出卖灵魂,暴露自己的一切?

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

你只有在最后一次改变主意的时候才那么年轻。